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On Flag Day, Recorder Karen Yarbrough was pleased to welcome many special guests to help dedicate CCRD’s new Veterans Service Office. Our Veterans Service Office is a place where veterans and their families can sit down in privacy to record or retrieve DD-214 military discharge records. A dedicated staffer will help ensure a smooth and […]

Victims of property and recording fraud could soon have new tools to fight back and clear their titles thanks to the Illinois General Assembly’s recent passage of Cook County Recorder Karen A. Yarbrough’s anti-fraud legislative agenda. Recording fraud is the recordation of a document known to be fraudulent in an attempt to create a “cloud […]

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen A. Yarbrough recently received two awards – one from the Illinois Housing Development Authority and another from the Illinois Credit Union League – for her work on Senate Bill 16. This new law, sponsored by Yarbrough when she was Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House, speeds up the […]

Click Here for the CCRD 100 Day Report To the Residents of Cook County: I am pleased to offer this report on the progress my office has made towards our goals of accuracy, efficiency and advocacy in our first 100 Days. As the first new Recorder of Deeds for Cook County in 13 years, it should […]

With the passage of a bill on Thursday that would take the costs and burdens of property fraud off the victims, Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen A. Yarbrough announced that her entire legislative agenda had cleared the Illinois House of Representatives, and now awaits further action in the Senate. “Even before taking office, I […]

Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen A. Yarbrough promised the property owners of Cook County that she’d be their chief advocate and she is making good on that promise by authoring three pieces of state legislation to allow the Recorder’s Office to fight property fraud. “I knew coming into this office that the Recorder of […]

Foreclosure is bad. Finding out two years later that the bank never actually took your house, which is now crumbling, is even worse. That’s what has been happening to thousands of families around the country. They receive a notice saying their house will be sold at auction in a few weeks and leave. The bank […]

The Cook County Recorder of Deeds’ Office unveiled a new website on Tuesday, designed to be easier to use for customers. The site will also feature a blog with useful news and updates from Recorder Yarbrough on additional office improvements. “Our new site is more modern and easier to use, and gives users more ways […]